The End Of The Road: The Idea That Took A Toll On How We Travel ("Wachs nominates Article 19 of the California state constitution as a Law That Shaped L.A. Since 19's passage in the early 1920s, the Golden State has taken a dedicated "cents per gallon" amount from purchases of gasoline and used that money for, as the text of the Article reads, "The research, planning, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of public streets and highways...." Contains numerous historic images)
KCET

Freeing Up Freeways ("With our virtual vacuum of public finance for such projects going forward, we need to ask: What’s the prognosis for more such transformative, big-budget efforts? And what methods work best to integrate ribbons of concrete into our communities?")
Metropolis Magazine

Handshake: IFC's Quarterly Journal On Public Private Partnerships (122p. PDF : "This issue of Handshake turns to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the road and rail sectors. Authors and interviewees explain how PPP approaches have changed the direction of their countries’ highway systems and the future of freight rail. Looking forward, the Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics makes the case that logistics clusters are permanently transforming the economy, thanks in part to the roads and railways feeding into those hubs. Ultimately, however, mobility makes possible more than a strong economy -- it promotes social and political integration. As Ethiopia’s former minister of transport once told Juhel, “Without roads,
there is no democracy.”)
World Bank

Highway Robbery: How Congress Put Politics Before Need In Federal Highway And Transit Funding (35p. PDF : "This paper lays out specific recommendations for reforming federal highway funding, helping the government direct money where it’s needed most. Specifically, we identify three inefficiencies in the current funding system: The equity bonus program, an overly complicated and remarkably inefficient formula that distributes billions of dollars without any consideration of need; Minimum set-aside rules, which guarantee that certain small states get funding regardless of their share of total needs; Imperfections in the funding formulas, which understate certain highway and transit costs relative to each state’s need.:")
Center For American Progress

LA's Orange Line Shows The Way For Montgomery BRT ("Why does the Orange Line work? It goes where people want to go, it's frequent, and it connects to the subway, major bus routes, and commuter rail. But more importantly, it gives riders a fast, pleasant experience that rivals driving in a place known for its car culture....One rider told me, completely unprompted, how much he liked the Orange Line. "Thank God for Metro," he said. "I'm glad they have all these buses and trains now. Back in the day, we didn't have none of this and you had to have a car.")
Greater Greater Washington

Transit Agency Rejects Toll Lanes For I-405 ("After hours of debate, the OCTA board voted 12-4 in favor of a $1.3 billion plan that adds one lane in each direction between Euclid Avenue and the I-605.")
Orange County Register

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